Make AI adoption a strategic priority.
Appoint AI New Zealand to lead your AI roadmap. Together we’ll empower your people to leverage AI at work.
AI Leadership Enablement.
After 8 years working with organisations on AI enablement, we’ve developed a comprehensive program to accelerate AI adoption.
This is what a leader from AI New Zealand will deliver.
From discovery to activation, leveraging Artificial Intelligence is not just about deploying new tech. It’s about enabling your workforce to change how they work.
Adopting AI powered tools and tech, requires new skills, training and support.
This program will guide your organisation through discovering the most impactful use cases, identifying the practical solutions, reducing risk through guidelines and training, and deployment of enterprise grade solutions, adhering to your security, brand and cultural values.
Working with Senior Leadership
We kick off with the Executive AI Briefing and the establishment of your AI working group, a cross functional leadership team to guide and support.
Understand risks & establish Governance protocols
We established the guidelines and business rules for AI enablement, ensuring safe, secure & compliant use of AI.
Provide training to boost skills and capability
Facilitating AI skills and capability training and workshops to leverage new AI tools deployed across the organisation.
Identifying high impact use cases
We host the Lunch & Learn event and work across the business to prioritise the high impact use cases for AI.
Select & deploy enterprise grade tools
We’ll help you select, provision and deploy GenAI, LLMs or custom AI applications for your high impact use cases.
Advance AI adoption and use case maturity
Provides advanced user training to develop the use cases. Develops AI Agents to automate advanced workflows, document creation and content production.
Build momentum to benefit from new AI skills.
The capability of Artificial Intelligence is growing 10x every 6 months. Our dedicated AI leaders are across new tech, tools and best practices to provide you with up to date, practical advice.
Focused on you, every week.
Our AI leaders will dedicate 1 day per week to working with your Executive on governance, facilitating skills based training and increasing adoption of new Ai-powered tools.
Our AI Leader program starts from $5,000 p/m.
During our six month AI leadership program we will boost workforce productivity. Providing the skills and confidence to leverage AI in remarkable new ways.
AI For Business Leaders
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Justin Flitter | Founder | Chief AI Officer
Locations: NZ | Global
Justin founded AI New Zealand in 2017 to help Kiwi companies use AI. Since then he’s presented at 100’s of events, and facilitated dozens of workshops helping companies of all sizes find the practical ways they can use AI.
He’s a Director on the Board of Business Mentors NZ, Chair of The NZ Tech Marketers Group and Emcee of TEDxAuckland.
Justin hosts New Zealand’s longest running monthly AI event, The AI Show.
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Ben Walker | CIO | AI for business leader
Locations: NZ | Dunedin
With over 25 years in technology, Ben possesses a deep understanding of technology architecture and the practical applications of Artificial Intelligence.
Ben is skilled in aligning business objectives with technology, leading to effective implementations.
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Simon Small | Exec AI Advisor | AI Governance
Locations: UK | NZ | Global
As an AI Governance expert and the founder of Kegai, a boutique AI Governance practice in the City of London, I am renowned for introducing GovernanceTech to FTSE100 boards (Diligent) and co-founding Arria NLG, a leading Enterprise Generative AI unicorn recognized by Gartner as a world leader.
Simon is an author, podcaster, and trusted advisor, and host of London’s top Enterprise Gen AI meetup.
Why you should consider hiring an AI leader.
Book an AI Chat to discuss your requirements and discover the AI leaders ready to support your business.
Leverage our complete AI for business enablement program, including a dedicated AI leader to drive adoption, build skills and capability.
Strategic alignment
Hiring an AI leader like a Chief AI Officer (CAIO) is a strategic decision that can significantly benefit a company navigating the complexities and opportunities of artificial intelligence (AI) integration.
The CAIO plays a pivotal role in aligning AI initiatives with strategic objectives, optimizing return on investment (ROI), and maintaining a competitive edge.
Business & technical expertise
The role of a CAIO bridges the gap between technical AI expertise and strategic business outcomes to ensure AI initiatives align with the company's overall goals and objectives.
An effective CAIO possesses a unique blend of technical expertise and business insight, enabling them to understand and leverage AI technologies across the entire business.
This includes not just the application of large language models and AI tools but also navigating the ethical considerations of AI deployment to ensure productivity gains are made safely and responsibly.
Benefits of hiring a Chief AI Officer.
A Chief AI Officer (CAIO) will significantly impact your operational performance, business strategy, and competitive edge.
Strategic AI Integration: A CAIO ensures that AI technologies are integrated across the company in a strategic manner that aligns with the company's goals, improving customer retention, security posture, and employee productivity.
Cross-Functional Application: The CAIO can break down silos and apply AI across different departments, ensuring that AI benefits are realised throughout the organisation.
Disruption and Innovation: By understanding how AI can disrupt the company's strengths and address challenges, a CAIO can position the company at the forefront of innovation.
Talent Attraction: The role can help attract and retain top tech talent, as it signals the company's commitment to AI and its willingness to invest in expert leadership.
Ethical and Responsible AI: A CAIO is responsible for ensuring that AI is used ethically and responsibly, considering legal, risk, and compliance objectives.
Quantifiable Impact: CAIOs are expected to deliver quantifiable results, measuring the business and financial impact of AI initiatives.
Broad Business Understanding: They have a comprehensive view of how the business functions, which allows them to understand how AI can assist in all areas of the business.
Leadership and Vision: A CAIO provides leadership and vision for AI initiatives, ensuring that they are not only technically sound but also aligned with business objectives and ethical standards.
Adaptation to AI Evolution: As AI technology evolves rapidly, a CAIO helps the organisation to adapt quickly and avoid falling behind.
Unified AI Vision: A CAIO can provide a unifying AI vision for the entire organisation, ensuring that AI initiatives are coherent and strategically aligned.
Risk Management: They can manage the risks associated with AI, including compliance with future regulations and ethical considerations.
AI-Centric Culture: If AI is central to a company's strategy, a CAIO can help develop an AI-centric culture and reshape the company's core business.
Permanent, fixed-term or fractional.
Find the ideal CAIO candidate to complement your team, strategic initiative and technical requirements.
Your search starts here.
If you’re on the search to hire a CAIO, talk to us first. Book an AI Chat to discuss your needs, scope of role and key outcomes and we’ll provide a short list of candidates.
Become a CAIO candidate.
Register your interest in full-time or contract CAIO roles. Book a AI Chat to discuss your experience, ideal role, company or project. After we’ve verified your credentials we’ll discuss potential opportunities with you.
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